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/vɛnˈtɹɪl.ə.kwɪst/
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vɛnˈtɹɪl.ə.kwɪst
Noun
A person, especially an entertainer, who practices ventriloquism.
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Most ridiculous is the discomfiture which attends the opponents of predication, who, like the ventriloquist Eurycles, have the voice that answers them in their own breast.
"Oh, I am a ventriloquist," said the little man. "I can throw the sound of my voice wherever I wish, so that you thought it was coming out of the Head. […]"
Noun
a performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy
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